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Wednesday, 9 October 2013

Influence Spotlight: Jim Lee

This will be a regular feature on my
page where I will talk about influences on my techniques and styles. Hopefully
I can introduce you to new artists, or give you a different way to look at
artists you already know.

First cab off
the rank is going to be Jim Lee. The reason I will go with Jim Lee up first is
he is the reason I got interested in, and stayed interested in comic books. I started
reading comics around the time Jim was working on the Uncanny X-Men. I eagerly
purchased the “new” X-Men when he released it, and have been heavily invested
in his work ever since.

My favourite
piece of his work to date (as a penciler) is Batman Hush – the artwork in that
series was amazing, and was pretty much the first time I really read DC
comics.It is amazing to look back at
how much Jim Lee developed as an artist between his early work on the Punisher
War Journal through to his more recent stuff. I was not much of a fan of Jim’s
work in the Punisher series, but looking back now, I can see where he current
style has developed from.

Jim Lee has
been criticized in the past for having no real artitst depth to his art, almost
saying his work is plastic and generic. I disagree, I do think his style is
perfectly suited for the spandex and cape brigade or Marvel and DC comics, but
I also don’t have a problem with that. He excels at drawing action and movement,
and that is exactly what draw people into most comics, it is also the element
of his style that I would dearly love to master.

Anyways, below are some amazing pieces from Jim Lee and also some links to Jim Lee related pages, so you can check out some of his eye
candy.